"Oh no!" / Xorg crash after logging in at the Greeter on Jessie

This is the problem referred to in #8710 (closed).

So far, I have been able to reproduce this with every Jessie Tails ISO I’ve tried. This time I used tails-i386-feature_jessie-1.3-20150122T0511Z-0e61703.iso.

The steps to reproduce this are few:
1. Get a Tails Jessie ISO.
2. Boot it with kvm -m 4096 -cdrom tails-i386-feature_jessie-1.3-20150122T0511Z-0e61703.iso
3. Log in at the greeter.

The end result is the dreaded “Oh no!” GNOME 3 screen. If you switch to another VT and then go back to X you’ll be back at the Tails greeter.

Attached to this ticket is the result of journalctl -a > journal.txt.  @var/log/gdm@ only contained the file tails-greeter.errors. Its content:

 
day 022 of 2015 [18:45:28] Password variable not found.

Attachments

• journal.txt

Related issues

• Related to #7323 (closed)

Original created by @kytv on 8778 (Redmine)